Spending a lot of time just trying things until they work. My favorite find was that the AWS official documentation was wrong and after about 4 hours trying to figure it out, stumbled on a slide show from RE:Invent with the correct code around slide 46.

Current little project: lighting up an entire #AWS environment (network, public IP, load balancing, DNS, #docker build and deployment into #Fargate) using only #Java. No command line, no pointy-clicky.

Gonna be honest, 99% of the reason I keep this instance is up is for all the bitching about Mastodon I do occasionally take a hack at trying to fix how it's fucked up federation again.

But it's been an uphill battle. For each mastodon federation problem that I fix, there's 10 more that are just as bad to fuss with. And sometimes the fixes that would be easy would break federation with other things.

This is a lot of the reason I get pretty sour about Mastodon, personal experiences aside.

I'll probably relaunch plateia when the Diaspora federation is complete and let it re-network.

I really wanted gboard to be awesome, but after 2 months, I switched back to swiftkey because the predictions are so much better. Anybody use a better keyboard for Android? I don't swipe, and I prefer to choose predictions over pressing the space bar.